What's your job???

[Nigelinoz]

I combined a 20 year career as a chef with a Certificate in I.T. to set up my own company which specialises in providing custom built inventory and purchasing management systems for the hospitality industry,most of my clients are in Melbourne and Sydney but I have recently signed a contract to provide my system to a large European hotel chain so I get to do quite a bit of flying.
And I love planes and anything to do with them.

 

[hedge]

Student with many jobs on the side.

Holiday job is in the resources/energy sector.

 

[iqis60]

I work in solar power research (photovoltaic engineering), keeping research labs running at UNSW. Not much travelling required for that job, unless your actually producing research papers.
More of my travel comes from doing Habitat for Humanity trips.

 

[jaffa]

I am mostly a lurker, but do post from time to time.

I am the MD of a number of my own retail company's, in what's often termed a fun & very profitable recession proof industry. Have been doing this successfully now for 25 years.

I am also the National VP of my industry's trade/lobbying body based in Canberra.


This success has allowed me at a personal level to have spent most of my private life working in, and as a benefactor to, the specialist fields of regional/rural anti violence initatives, rural youth suicide prevention & HIV Aids prevention/services.
This has led to political candidacy's in the past and presently seats on a range of committe's and groups both private sector and govn't.

Hence my travel.

Being & remaining single has enabled me tremendous freedom to enjoy the world, my company's and my personal interests.
Life is never boring for me!

 

[ozimax]

My name is Heimie. I switched back to Kaos and now fight the forces of niceness....

Seriously, I am a Baptist preacher, and have travelled fairly extensively for 27-28 years, including 40+ overseas trips and more Australian journeys than I can count.

Formerly I was an Australian Airlines (read TAA) corporate sales executive and before that a pharmaceutical sales rep.

Income? Almost none.
Experiences? Priceless
Funding? Mastercard
Boss? God

 

[Junji]

I am involved in the membership rewards area of a major credit-card provider. I travel for industry events only.

 

[Batesy]

FMCG is my game, merchandise/buying/retail/wholesale.

 

[Natt]

My travel is self funded - not related to work

*sigh*

If anyone knows how to make travel pay, or at least break even I am all ears.

I'd love to write travel reports but every man and his dog does that (great when researching trips)

If I get organised I might blog my 8 month RTW trip - just from a record point of view.

I am such a wimp when it comes to photos we bought a soft toy to "stand in" and hes going to be the creature feature

 

[straitman]

If anyone knows how to make travel pay, or at least break even I am all ears.

Natt,

You could get a job as a pilot :!:

It worked for me. :shock:

 

[Alanslegal]

Did I mention that I'm a public servant?

Have a few other odds & ends outside of work but generally very busy whatever I am doing.

As a leisure traveller, I always try to plan trips three months apart

 

[Natt]

Natt,

You could get a job as a pilot :!:

It worked for me. :shock:

Well I'm keen.

I have seen all those movies where a passenger has to land a plane, and manages to do so by being "talked down"

So it can't be that hard

My RTW trip is a year away - that should be plenty of time

 

[NYCguy]

I have seen all those movies where a passenger has to land a plane, and manages to do so by being "talked down"

So it can't be that hard

Pilots earn their money when something goes wrong. Any Chimp can be trained to get a jet transport off the ground and down again, but try to train that Chimp to deal with an explosive decompression or a fire in flight, and suddenly it's a big big problem...

 

[NM]

I have seen all those movies where a passenger has to land a plane, and manages to do so by being "talked down"

So it can't be that hard

A work colleague of mine did that once in the Concorde simulator at Heathrow. He was working there installing a new radar system for the airport and was asked if he wanted to fly Concorde. Well he was expecting to be a passenger on a test/training flight and jumped at the chance. He was escorted to the simulator where they were training experienced pilots to talk a passenger through landing the aircraft. What an experience!

 

[Natt]

Pilots earn their money when something goes wrong. Any Chimp can be trained to get a jet transport off the ground and down again, but try to train that Chimp to deal with an explosive decompression or a fire in flight, and suddenly it's a big big problem...

Oops I was not serious - those movies just crack me up, so I thought they deserved a mention



Edit - they really train pilots to talk a passenger down - would that even work?

 

[straitman]

Edit - they really train pilots to talk a passenger down - would that even work?

Depends how many glasses of red they have had. (Pilot & Pax)

 

[Nigelinoz]

Oops I was not serious - those movies just crack me up, so I thought they deserved a mention



Edit - they really train pilots to talk a passenger down - would that even work?

I'm almost certain that the Mythbusters TV show did a story about this fairly recentlyand they proved that an air traffic controller could talk down a plane with a passenger at the controls.
I'll try and find a link on the net.

Edited to add: Found it right away,they decided it was "plausible"
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2008/01/episode_94_airplane_hour_talk.html

 

[NM]

Edit - they really train pilots to talk a passenger down - would that even work?

Well they did with Concorde in the early 1990s! No idea if its common these days.

They actually had two people sitting in the simulator. My friend was checking the dials and pushing buttons and levers (gear down etc) and his partner was working the flight controls. Apparently they got it onto the ground but slightly overran the end of the runway causing minimal undercarriage damage. No injuries and the aircraft would be able to fly again. So by definition, that is a good landing.

 

[straitman]

From my experience the best simulator pilots are usually the simulator technicians. :shock:

The real a/c may be a different story :!:

 

[Nigelinoz]

There was a story on PPRuNe a few years ago about about a student pilot who had only been given basic training but who was allowed to take the controls of a simulator at an airline,he'd apparently paid for the training.
Anyway he did such a poor job that not only did he crash the simulated plane but he "crashed" the simulator computer system as well doing several thousand dollars worth of damage.

 

[moongirl]

Aside from being a long-time-lurker/first-time-poster , I have been Tourguide Captain of a fixed track boat in a themepark, Lottery Expert and Director of First Impressions. Currently I am, Chief Organiser, Lifestyle Assistant and Righthand Woman.